Bee Landing Zone - Buchloe, Bavaria, Germany

Every bee coming and going from this hive right now is female. In autumn the workers throw the male drones out, so they don’t eat through the honey the colony needs for winter.

These are Carniolan honey bees, living in a big hollow log in the Bavarian countryside. Explore.org first put cameras on them in 2013, when news of collapsing bee colonies had people worried about the future of honey bees.

Honey bees don’t hibernate. When it gets cold they pack into a tight ball around the queen and shiver their flight muscles to make heat, keeping the middle at around 92°F (33°C). The bees on the cold outside edge take turns moving into the warm center.

Did You Know? Over her whole life, a worker bee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.

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